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...DIED. CHEA VICHEA, 40, leader of a Cambodian garment workers' union aligned with the country's political opposition; of gunshot wounds in an attack while he was reading a newspaper near a Buddhist pagoda; in Phnom Penh. Chea Vichea is the latest victim in a series of at least four killings in the past year of individuals linked to political parties opposing Prime Minister Hun Sen. "It's very difficult to say it was not politically motivated," said Prince Norodom Sirivudh, secretary-general of the royalist FUNCINPEC party...
...years ago, two nephews of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen were accused of involvement in a shootout in a Phnom Penh shopping center. After a brief stretch in jail, the pair was released when a judge ruled there was insufficient evidence to support charges that they possessed guns at the scene of the shooting. Last week, another of the Prime Minister's nephews was on trial, this time accused of manslaughter?and again the case appears to be falling apart. According to police, Nhim Sophea, the 22-year-old son of Hun Sen's sister, was partying with friends...
ARRESTED. NIM SOPHEA, 22, nephew of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, on murder charges in the shooting deaths of two people after a car race ended in a crash that killed a third person; in Phnom Penh. Police said Nim Sophea, the son of Hun Sen's sister, took part in the race. He allegedly fired an automatic rifle at onlookers who gathered at the crash site, killing two and injuring two. Authorities suspect Nim Sophea was drunk...
...days when Tranet doesn't have much to do--and that's often, he admits, as he is hobbled by a lack of funding--he heads across town to the customs house in Phnom Penh. Earlier this year, Tranet prevented a Frenchman from bribing a customs official to let him leave with an 18th century Buddha stolen from a pagoda in Posat province. The 5.3-ft. wooden statue now stands in a back-room workshop at Cambodia's National Museum in Phnom Penh. If it were returned to the remote pagoda, Tranet fears that thieves would target it again...
Politics in Cambodia can be a lethal business. In recent months, unknown assailants have murdered nearly a dozen people in what appear to be political vendettas. Last week, popular singer Touch Srey Nich, 24, was leaving a flower shop in Phnom Penh when four gunmen on motorbikes?two in military uniform?opened fire, killing Touch's 62-year-old mother and leaving the singer with multiple gunshot wounds to the face. (She is now in critical condition in a Bangkok hospital.) Touch is known by many as the "voice of Funcinpec"?the royalist opposition party?and her rendition of Funcinpec...